Means for checking the sale of railway and other tickets.



No. 850,950; PATENTBD APR. 23. 1901 H. J. MULLER.

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HEINRICH JULIUS MULLER, or SOHAFFHAUSEN, SWITZERLAND.

MEANS FOR CHECKING THE SALE OF RAILWAY AND OTHER TICKETS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 23, 1907.

Application filed ber 30,1906. semi No. 841,228.

T0 at whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HEINRICH JULIUs MUL- 'LFR, a citizen of Switzerland, residing in Scha'lfhausen, in the Canton of Schaffhausen,

Republic of Switzerland, (whose post-office address is 29 Neustadt, Schaffhausen,) have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for Checking the Sale of Railway and other Tickets; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

I have applied for patent in Switzerland on November 9, 1905, Patent No. 35,273; in Germany on November 13, 1905, Patent No. 177,632; in Austria on December 7, 1905, application. A.6,47705; in France on May 25, 1906, Patent No. 366,562; in Italy on June 2, 1906.

The object of the present invention is an arrangement for checking the railway and other tickets taken out of the pigeonholes of ticket-sale cases in which. the tickets are placed on end and pushed forward by springs. I

In the accompanying drawings two forms of the invention are shown.

Figure 1 is a section of the arrangement on line A B, Fig. 2, as attached to one of the pigeonholes; Fig. 2, a front view showing two forms of same in different positions; Fig. 3, a partial section on line C D, Fig. 2; Fig. 4-, a plan of slide.

a is a compartment of a ticket-sale case, in which compartment the tickets are arranged vertically. (Z is a plate for pushing the tickets forward, being. actuated by a spring f, provided with a guide-rod c. In a slot 9 in the bottom I" of the compartment an angleshaped slide h, which can be moved vertically, is fitted. The vertical side 71 of sameis provided at the top with two sidewise-projecting portions i to secure the tickets and with a handle 70, while the horizontal part 72 is formed with a recess h which embraces a piece 'm, which is turned down from the bot tom of the compartment Z. If the slide is raised by means of the handle 7c into the position shown in Fig. 1., it remains in that po sition after the handle has. been released, (see Figs. 1 and 3, left-hand side,) as the vertically-arranged tickets, being actuated by the pressure of the springs f, press forward. the vertical part it of the slide it, and the friction thereby arising between the front edge of the slot 9 and the part h, as well as between the front ticket and the part h of the slide, prevents the latter from falling down automatically. The horizontal part b of the slide when the latter is in the raised position lies against the bottomof the compartment and prevents the slide from tipping over. In this position the slide indicates to the checking oflicial that no tickets are being taken out of the compartment in question. If the ticket clerk wants to take a ticket out of the corresponding compartment, he has only to push the tickets 'n the ticket-compartment slightly backthat is to say, to release the part 71/ of the slide from the ressure of the spring fwhereupon the sli e by virtue of its own weight falls down into the bottom position and admits of the tickets being taken out in the usual way, Flg. 2, center part, and Fig. 3. When the slide falls down, the flap m causes it to descend vertically. While the slide is at the bottom" the flaps i prevent the tickets from being pushed out of the cases. In this position the slide shows the ticket clerk that tickets have been with drawn from the corresponding compartment.

In the form of the slide shown in Figs. 1 and 3 and the two left-hand sections of Fig.

2 the vertical portion h is full, so that when raised it covers the bottom part of the foremost ticket. In the slide shown in the righthand portion of Fig. 2 there is an opening a, which when the slide is raised shows the number of the ticket behind it.

The arrangement described has this ad vantage over previous devices, for the same purpose that the slide and the pushers for the tickets are all combined in one piece and there are no hinges and rivets. As in this arrangement two hitherto separate parts that is, pushers and slideare combined in one, the cost of making and fitting is eX- tremely low.

What Iclaim is 1. Apparatus for checking the withdrawal of tickets from the pigeonholes in railway and other ticket cases for tickets placed vertically and pushed forward by springs, comprising a slide having sidewise-projectingportions, fitted in the front part of the bottom of the pigeonhole and movable vertically, the said sidewise projections of the slide limiting its downward motion and when it is at the 'pigeonhole, the slide being capable of being bottom providing a stop for the tickets in the maintained in the elevated position by means of the pressure of the spring which pushes the tickets forward substantially as described.

.2. Apparatus for checking the withdrawal of tickets from the pigeonholes in railway and Other ticket cases for tickets placed vertically and pushed forward by springs, comprising a slide having sidewise-projectingportions, fitted in the front part of the bottom of the pigeonhole, movable vertically and having a vertical and a horizontal shank, a guide for the horizontal shank of the slide, the said. sidewise projections of the slide limiting its downward motion and when it is at the bottom providing a stop for the tickets in the pigeonhole, the slide being capable of being maintained in the elevated position by means of the pressure of the spring which pushes the tickets forward, substantially as described.

3. Apparatus for checking the withdrawal of tickets from the pigeonholes in railway and other ticket-cases for tickets placed vertically and pushed forward by springs comprising aslide having sidewise-projectingportions, fitted in the front partof the bottom of the pigeonhole, movable vertically and having a vertical and a horizontal shank, and a flap turned down from the bottom of the pigeonhole v and serving as guide for the horizontal shank of the slide, the sidewise projections of the slide limiting its downward IIlO- tion and when it is at the bottom providing a stop for the tickets in the pigeonhole; the slide being capable of being maintained in the elevated position by means of the pressure of the spring which pushes the tickets forward, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

HEINRICH JULIUS MULLER.

Witnesses A. LIEBERKNEOHT, I'IERMANN HUBER. 

